Attention spans are getting shorter and media options open to consumers have become more numerous. Older folks remember a time there were no internet, smartphones, iPads and laptops. Members of the “google-yahoo” generation wonder how their parents and grandparents were able to live without these.
These internet freaks informed our decision to publish online first – four months before this maiden print edition. They even influenced the choice of the name Eyeway, for the way of the eye is always straight and direct; its path is never crooked – it is like that of light. While the news may be easily accessed these days, important information that ought to guide policymakers, technocrats and CEOs in decision-making has become scarcer.
We have therefore designed a magazine of this size and quality in a bid to arrest “poor reading culture” with engaging prose, without sacrificing balance, fairness and objectivity. We have set out to tell both the future and the past, not what is now known as hit-and-run journalism. Readers will be reading the news even before it breaks…
This edition may be the only one in which we disclose some of the men and women on the highway with Eyeway and are helping to make this dream realisable. Henceforth, only the name of the editor will be identified, though reputable individuals may wish to be named when they contribute worthy pieces. [We] therefore mention a few contributors: Hassan Umar, Funmi. Ayoola, Usman Shamaki , C. Don Adinuba , Hannatu Musawa, Lemmy Adebisi, Odilim Enwegbara, and Peter-Jones Ailurio.
A common belief is that every media organisation protects certain interests. This one is different. The only interest we protect is the truth…
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